U.S. Colored Troops Veterans of Cape Girardeau - Veterans Day Honors

150 years is not too late to give respect and honor for Civil War military service. At least fourteen Civil War Veterans, who served with the United States Colored Troops, enlisted from Cape Girardeau or who settled here after the war, are buried in Fairmont Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

A living history event will take place on Sunday, November 8, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the cemetery's section C - at the northernmost block of Caruthers Avenue (before the Dunklin Street intersection).

Volunteers will be posted throughout the cemetery to share information about the life, service and families of each of fourteen USCT veterans, whose graves have been located. Visitors are invited to walk from grave site to grave site to hear more about the courage and service of these men, all who left their slaveowners to volunteer for military service to fight for the cause of the United States and to seek freedom to abolish slavery for themselves and their families. You are invited to learn more about a nearly forgotten history.